Cybercrime

Cybercrime

Cybercrime is now a sophisticated transnational threat that operates on a significant scale and has become an increasingly important issue for the global community.

In Australia, cybercrime describes both crimes directed at computers or other information communications technologies (ICTs) such as hacking and denial of service attacks, as well as traditional crimes where computers or ICTs are an integral part of the offence such as online fraud, money laundering and identity theft.

The online distribution of child exploitation material is also a very prevalent form of offending.

There are specific Commonwealth computer offences relating to the unauthorised access and modification of data and the impairment of electronic communications.